Commercial space flights

Stephen Attenborough, Chief Marketing Officer, Virgin Galactic. From a digital conference of the JUNIPER company

"The great gift of space flights is the opportunity to observe the Earth from the outside and see how fragile it is"

This is what Stephen Attenborough, Chief Customer Officer at Virgin Galactic says during a virtual conference held by the Juniper company. Enborough's talk was broadcast from Virgin Galactic's Astronaut Office in London
The astronauts of the Crew-1 mission: from left: Shannon Walker, Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins and Soichi Noguchi don SpaceX spacesuits on their way to launch. Photo: NASA/Joel Kowsky

Four astronauts are on their way to the space station aboard the first commercial manned spacecraft

SpaceX's Falcon 9 launcher carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft on NASA's CREW-1 mission and SpaceX is being launched tonight to the International Space Station and inside it is a spacecraft containing NASA astronauts Mike
Commercial Crew logo. Image: NASA

Boeing and SpaceX win NASA tender to fly astronauts to space station